Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Nidec Sankyo Corporation

Doukyoung Song

Jina Jeon

Hyoungil Song

Yonghyun Park

Hokeun Kwak

Joonyoung Song

Seunghoon Han

Yongsang Yun

Shinji Minamisawa

Seungnyun Kim

Takeshi Sue

Tadashi Takeda

Jongmin Yoon

Chulkwi Kim

Hyungjin Rho

Chanyoung Moon

Kazuhiko Yanagisawa

Jaeheung Park

Sangeun Mun

Jun Yamashita

Dongok Choi

Hongbum Park

Disclosed is an electronic device including an electrochromic device and a method of controlling the electronic device. The method includes: acquiring a first image frame using a camera of the electronic device, turning off an infrared (IR) lighting of the electronic device based on the IR lighting being on; acquiring a second image frame using the camera while the IR lighting is off; and controlling a transmittance of the electrochromic device based on a brightness of the second image frame based on the first image frame being acquired with the IR lighting on.

Electronic device including electrochromic device and method of controlling the electronic device

Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device may include a housing forming a first space configured to seat an external electronic device and a second space, a battery storing power, a support part disposed within the first space and configured to support the external electronic device when the external electronic device is seated in the electronic device, a first antenna and a second antenna disposed in the support part, a third antenna disposed in the second space and configured to receive a first magnetic field from the outside of the housing and to supply power to the battery. The battery may be disposed in the second space. The battery may radiate a second magnetic field to at least some area of the first space by supplying power to at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna.

Wearable electronic device and electronic device charging the same

An electronic device may include: at least one camera; an encoder connected to the at least one camera through a first interface having a first number of signal lines; and a decoder connected to the encoder through a second interface having a second number of signal lines that is less than the first number. The encoder can provide, to the decoder through the second interface, data acquired from the at least one camera through the first interface and data encoded on the basis of identification information indicating each of the first number of signal lines.

Electronic device in which signal lines of camera are reduced

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a frame including a first region and a second region, a window member supported by the frame, a support member rotatably connected to the frame, a display module configured to project an image onto the window member, and a camera disposed in the second region of the frame to capture an eye part of a user. The camera may include a substrate and an image sensor disposed on the substrate, and an area of the substrate may be equal to or smaller than an area of the image sensor.

Wearable electronic device including small camera

An electronic device performing a method of tracking a user's gaze of an electronic device and outputting an augmented reality (AR) image is provided. The metho includes outputting a first light which is a structured light at a first time point toward the user's eyes, outputting a second light at a second time point toward the user's eyes, acquiring a first image in response to the output of the first light at the first time point, acquiring a second image in response to the output of the second light at the second time point, synthesizing the first image and the second image to create a third image, calculating first coordinate values, which are coordinate values of pupils of the user's eyes on the basis of the third image; and detecting a gaze direction on the basis of the first coordinate values.

Electronic device and method thereof for tracking user gaze and providing augmented reality service

A device and method of controlling a light source in eye tracking using a glint are provided. The method includes transmitting, from a processor to a first camera and a second camera, an activation signal to instruct the first and second cameras to operate according to a pattern, transmitting, to a first light driver and a second light driver, a control command to instruct the first and second light drivers to operate according to a control signal (a first control signal or a second control signal) corresponding to each of the first and second light drivers, and preventing the processor from intervening in a process of turning on and off odd-numbered light sources and even-numbered light sources.

Apparatus and method of controlling light source in eye tracking using glint

An electronic device according to various embodiments disclosed herein may include a lens assembly having a structure in which at least one meta-lens and a spacer member are stacked, and an image sensor assembly attached to one side of the lens assembly to receive light passing through the lens assembly and convert the light into an optical signal. The spacer member may be fixed to one side of the lens assembly between the image sensor assembly and the lens assembly such that a cavity is defined by an inner side surface of the spacer member, a bottom surface of the lens assembly, and a top surface of the image sensor assembly.

Camera with meta-lens and electronic device including same

A wearable apparatus including a camera and a method of controlling the same is provided. The method includes determining a vision processing process to be performed on each of image frames obtained at a first frame rate, determining a dummy image frame on which the vision processing process is not to be performed, applying, to a camera, a camera setting corresponding to a vision processing process to be performed on a current image frame, obtaining the current image frame according to the applied camera setting, outputting the obtained current image frame from the camera, and setting an exposure time of the camera setting to be less than or equal to an threshold value or changing the first frame rate to a second frame rate in response to the current image frame being the dummy image frame.

Wearable device including camera and method of controlling the same

According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device includes: a frame; a glass module comprising a glass supported by the frame; a support rotatably connected to the frame; a display module comprising display circuitry configured to project an image to the glass module; a front camera disposed in at least one of the frame or the support configured to photograph the front of the frame; a light emitting unit comprising light-emitting circuitry configured to radiate light toward the rear of the frame; and an eye tracking camera disposed in the frame configured to photograph the rear of the frame and including a lens assembly including at least one lens, wherein the eye tracking camera is configured to form a field of view (FOV) to include both a left eye and a right eye of a user based on an object distance, which is a distance between the lens assembly and an object, being a first distance corresponding to a distance between the lens assembly and the left eye and/or the right eye of the user wearing the electronic device, wherein an absolute value of a distortion value of the lens assembly is equal to or less than a threshold value capable of tracking a pupil movement of the left eye and the right eye with respect to light incident from a region of interest (ROI) within a certain range from an outermost portion to the inside among regions corresponding to the FOV.

Electronic device and method for eye-tracking of user and providing augmented reality service thereof

The present disclosure provides an optical unit with shake correction function capable of preventing a thrust receiving member, which fixes a sphere, from falling off from the movable body in an optical axis direction. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a thrust receiving member to which a first sphere is fixed is held by a holding portion formed of the cutout recess provided in a fixed body. A bottom wall surface of the holding portion makes contact with a bent plate portion of the thrust receiving member from &#x2212;Z direction side. Further, locked surface parts provided on a pair of side wall surfaces of a holding portion make contact, from +Z direction side, with a pair of locking plate portions protruding from a bent plate portion in circumferential direction in the thrust receiving member.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Doukyoung Song